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A,   GALiIPOI^NIA    PAII^y 


CaliforHia 
FaiRy 


knanhUbmy 


HKX  stocks  and  bonds,  wheat  and  'Change, 
the  tariff,  and  questions  of  parity  of  gold  and 
silver,  creep  away  into  some  innermost  cell  of  our 
brains,  there  to  rest  for  the  nonce  in  quiet  slumber, 
reveries  of  sweet  childhood's  days  freely  take  the 
places  of  these  ponderous,  busy -day  thoughts. 


OW  nimbly  then  troop  forth  those  strange 
creatures  of  fanc}-,  the  fairies,  the 
nymphs,  the  sprites,  the  gnomes,  the  great  bats, 
the  ugly  vampires,  the  fiery  serpents!  The  prowess 
of  strange  heroes  and  wonderful  and  mysterious 
transformations  thrill  and  magnetize  our  senses. 
There  is  Jack  and  the  beanstalk;  the  lillipu- 
ticin  ,pavid^  who  slew  the  giant 
Ooliath;  Tom  Thumb, 
ho  was  put  in  a 
int  pot  and  bid 
to  drum;  Aladdin 
and  his  wonder- 
ful lamp;  and, 
l)est  of  all,  Cin- 
derella and  her 
little  glavSs  slipper. 
Oh,  what  won- 
ders were  accom- 
plished in  fairy- 
land in  those 
days  of  child- 
ish  dreaming! 


OWLY  hovels,   by  the 
magic    wave    of 
some  kind  fairy's  wand, 
became,  in  the  twinkling" 
of  an  eye,  glorious  pal- 
aces.     Elegant   carriages 
and  gayly  caparisoned 
steeds    sprang    from 
rusty  pumpkin  -  shells . 
Good   children  forgot  the 
miseries  of  poverty  and   be- 
came instantaneously  rich,  noble 
and  powerful. 

Comforting   improbabilities!     And   yet 
how  true  to  life  are  all  these  infant  fantasies! 

Even  now  do  we  live  in  an  age  of  fairies.  Dost 
thou,  kind  reader,  believe  it  not?  Touch  yonder 
button,  and  forthwith  appears  a  sprite  to  do  your 
every  bidding.  A  fairy  taps  a  key  which  sounds 
your  words  of  affection,  friendship  or  business  on 
distant  shores. 


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on    listen    to    the 
voice   of    vSome    friend   in 
farthermost    part   of   city   or   town  ? 
Place  to  your  ear  this  trumpet,  and 
Nature's  fairies  will  transmit  his  faint- 
est  whisper.     Do  you  wish  to  take  a 
morning  ride?     Press  this  knob,  and  lol 

ij'our  carriage  waits  for  3'OU  at  the  door. 
Do  you  feel  the  chill  of  winter  ?    A 
turn  of  the  key  will  send  thousands    ^  "^  '^ 
of  fairies  and  sprites  singing  through 
coils  of  pipe  to  warm  the  air  about  you . 
Do  you  wish  to  go  up  stairs  or  down?    h 
Step  into  this  little  room,  and  the  attendant  P'i 
sprite,   by  a  stroke  of  his  hand,  wall  cause 
the   fairies   to   raise   or   lower   you  from  floor 
to  floor.     Would  3^ou  travel  ?     Are  there  not 
hundreds  of  fairy  coaches  to  whisk  you  from 
town  to  country  and  country  to  town  ? 

Speaking    of    traveling — have   3'ou   not   often 
longed,  on  the  eve  of  your  departure,  for 
some  faiiy^,   who,   appearing   before   you 
in    all   fairyland's  resplendent  beauty, 
would  grant  you,   as  of  old,  just 
"N^  three    wishes,    to    be    instantly 

fulfilled  ? 


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how   hard    'twould    be    to    choose    those 

wishes  aright !  Perhaps  the  first  would 
be  a  safe  and  pleasant  journey;  the  vSecond,  success 
in  every  undertaking ;  and  the  third,  last  and  best 
of  all,  would  be  the  wish  to  take  with  you  on  your 
journey  that  elegant,  many  storied  hotel,  with  its 
marble  halls,  beautiful  chambers,  and  frescoed  walls ; 
its  tapestried  floors  and  rich  appointments;  its  solid 
comforts  and  modem  conveniences.  Have  you  not 
often  tried  to  cram  all  these  into  your  little  leather 
grip,  and  succeeded  only  in  paclyng:  there  some  crum- 
pled linen,  a  toothbrush, 
a  hairbrush  and  a  comb 
some  samples  of  ore, 
ditto  wheat,  a  photo- 
graph, a  flask  of  some- 
thing brown,  a  box  of 
pills,  and  the  shriv- 
eled remains  of  a 
cake  of  hotel  soap  ? 


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REAT^IKR, 

are  yoii 

blind?     Do  j^ou  not 
see  the  beautiful  fairy 
standing  there,  with  \va:   ' 
uplifted,  ready  to  grab!  ^    m" 

last  great  wish,  iinpossib  h  it  may 

seem  to  you?     Touch  noi  uie  wrong  button,   my 
lord !     Turn   not   the  wroilg  ke}- !     Press  not  the 
wrong   knob!     Take   not   the   wrong   path!     Let 
this   kind   fairy  lead   you,   and   she   will   guide 
/'        you  to  that  paragon  of  comfortable  excellence, 
that   acme   of  scientific   thought   and   inven- 
tion,  that   perfection  of  modem  travel, 
Sunset  Limited. 


TEP  into  the  fair\'  coach,  most  noble  sir! 
The  smiling  host  is         ,, 
ready  to  welcome  you ;    the 
genial  porters  are  there 
to  care  for  your  lug- 
gage;   the   affable 
clerk  will  assign  to 
you  elegant  apart- 
ments;   the  royal 
r//</and  imniacu-^. 
late  waiters  are  prepared 
to  satisfy  your  hunger  and  thirst 


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IvISt!  the  Hotel  de  Sunset  Limited  trembles,  il 
the  spectral  lights  of  the  City  by  the  Golden  Gat> 


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s,  it  rolls  on  wheels,  it  speeds  faster  and  faster,  leaving 
ehind. 


HE  frescoes  of  the  walls  have  been  transformed 
into  polished  woods,  in  grainings  which  are  a 
perfect  song  of  nature  and  of  art. 
Golden  thrones  have  faded  away, 
and  in  their  stead  3^011 
will  find  easy  chairs, 
divans,  rich  upholster- 
ings,  handsome  tapes- 
tries and  every  con- 
comitant of  modern 
elegance,  refinement  and 
wealth.  Noble  courtiers 
keep  you  coi 

pany, — not  h^meted 

nor  periwigged,  nor  fur- 
belowed,  as  of  old,  but 
courtiers  nevertheless. 
Handsome  ladies,  too, 
are  there,  attended  by 
courtlv  maids  of  honor. 


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X  chambers  furnished  with  royal 
couch  and  private  toilet, 
princely  drawing-rooms,  I 
libraries,  dining-room  whose 
board  is  sumptuously  laden  with 
tempting  feast,  crystal  baths,  splendid  shaving  par- 
lors, and  all  their  respective  attendants,  make  your 
reign  complete.  Your  kind  fairy  has  made  for  you 
a  palace,  a  throne,  a  kingdom.  By  her  gentle  aid 
you  have  learned  how  to  take 
our  hotel  with  you  when 
,'^ou  travel.  Go,  then, 
and  enjoy  the  fullness 
thereof ! 


T  T  g-lides  along  the 

of  the  beautiful  San  Fraiicisro  Hay  it  sweeps 
around  curves,  it  dashes  through  tunnels,  it  crosses 
farms  and  bowls  down  pleasant  country  lanes.  The 
light  of  the  full  moon  reveals  in  uncertain  outlines 
the  distant  undulating 
hills,  while  near  at  hand 
are  verdant  meadows  in 
which  to-morrow's  sun 
will  find  contented  herds. 
On  and  on,  through  the  valley 

of   the   San    Joaquin,    through   broad 
vistas  of  yellow  grain  waving  in  the 
gentle  breeze,  and  across  canals 
which  slake  the  thirst  of  pur- 
ple vineyards  and  orchards 
in  full  fruitage,  rushes  this 
i^reat  hotel. 


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OW   it    rounds 
Tehachapi's 
"  Loop  ,"      now 
flashes  through 
orange  groves, 
vales  of  olives, 
and    gardens    fresh   with    morning   dew 
and     the     sweet     perfume     of    perennial 
fruits  and  flowers.     It  sweeps  past  houses, 
towns    and   cities,   bounds   o'er  desert  wastes 
climbs   mineral   hills,   and   glides  along  lone 
some  plains.    It  leaps  rivers,  finds  its  devious 
j^  "  way  through  forests,  traverses  marshes 
and  bayous,  and  at  eventide 
courses  through  cotton 

fields  and  sugar  plan 
tations     filled    with 
negro  melody 


7, 


|T  last  it  moves  no  more.  It  has  reached  a  resting 
place  beside  the  great  Father  of  Waters,  the  Mis- 
sissippi River.  It  stands  firm  and  still  in  the  beau- 
tiful Crescent  City,  so  interesting  in  romance 
and  in  histor>^  And  you,  sir,  go  forth  into 
the  redolence  of  magnolias,  and  into  the  balmy 
air  of  southern  skies,  refreshed  by  sweetest 
slumber,  a  well-filled  larder,  rich  comfort, 
elegant  ease,  and  every  convenience  that 
fairy  genius  or  modern  invention  can  con- 
jure for  your  ministration. 

You  and  your  hotel,  with  all  its  varied 
and  useful  appurtenances,  have  traveled  two 
thousand  five  hundred  miles  across  the 
land.  And,  as  you  continue  your  journey 
to  the  north,  the  east,  or  the  south,  by  land 
or  sea,  you  become  a  firm  believer  in 
the  powers  of  modem  necromancy. 


Vi^O,  too,  you  sing  your  loudest  praises  of  the 
"^ — ^  beneficence  of  the  good  fairy  and  all  her 
attendant  retinue,  who,  by  a  wave  of  the  wand, 
brought  to  you  such  sweet  realization  of  the  won- 
derful palaces,  beautiful  gardens,  princely  domains 
and  rich  courts,  handsome  courtiers  and  ladies, 
elegant  coaches,  comforts  and  pleasures,  portrayed 
in  the  charming  story  of  Cinderella  and  the  glass 
slipper,  and  exemplified  to  the  utnio.st  in  that 
model  of  marvelous,  enchanting,  delightful  and 
speedy  travel,  the  great  Sunset  LIxMited. 


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